Month: July 2014

Energy prices have risen significantly in the last 5 years. Take a look at your accounts and it’s likely you will see a considerable increase. Because the price of energy is dependent upon world markets and government taxation, we as business consumers have very little control over the...

Competition has not been damaged by current policies to tackle climate change by reducing UK annual emissions of greenhouse gases. That’s the conclusion of a new review of the economic evidence published this month by the Grantham Research Institute and the ESRC Centre at the London School of Economics....

The Sustainable Energy Association’s Manifesto, published this month, has set out ‘ambitious recommendations to all political parties for how the UK economy could save billions by placing buildings at the heart of energy policy’. The SEA uses the Government’s own online calculator to demonstrate how an ambitious programme of...

The government has approved plans for what will probably we the world’s largest wind farm to be developed 27 miles off the Suffolk coast. East Anglia One is expected to inject millions of pounds into the local and national economies and create 2,900 jobs. The wind farm would be...